Four Things You Can Do NOW About the Latest Planned Parenthood Scandal

The Center for Medical Progress released a secretly recorded video yesterday of Planned Parenthood’s top doctor describing how the organization sells the body parts of aborted preborn babies.

It’s difficult to watch:

Over lunch and wine, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the Senior Director of Medical Services, describes how she harvests organs during the abortions she performs on babies up to 24 weeks gestational age. She explains how the procedure involves the doctors using ultrasound technology to guide their forceps:

You’re just kind of cognizant of where you put your graspers, you try to intentionally go above and below the thorax, so that, you know, we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part. I’m going to basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.

According to Nucatola, these organs are then sold for around $30 to $100 per specimen.

The practice of harvesting the body parts of preborn babies is confirmed by Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood clinic director who now works as a pro-life advocate. In a piece she penned yesterday, Abby describes what she did for eight long years before finally leaving in 2009:

During the season of tissue harvesting, an intact body was gold. An intact fetal body is considered perfection in the land of fetal tissue research. But dismembered body parts were okay, too…and that is usually what we gave them. I would check the patient’s chart to make sure that they had signed the consent for us to donate their baby’s remains. Almost every woman did, because we made it seem like that by donating, they were helping others…altruism during abortion.

Planned Parenthood has a long history of allegedly selling organs and body parts. And as the viral video hints at its start, this isn’t the first time Planned Parenthood has been implicated in the sale of body parts by a pro-life group.

Yet while it is possible Planned Parenthood might be breaking the law, it’s also plausible the nation’s largest abortion provider is taking advantage of legal loopholes; just look at how easily Dr. Nucatola shrugs off existing law by citing disclaimers such as “intent” and “interpretation.”

After all, Planned Parenthood is, at its core, a business.

And a lucrative one at that.

That’s probably why the flyer to abortion clinics from StemExpress, the research lab Nucatola mentions in the video that buys the body parts from Planned Parenthood, emphasizes profits. The flyer talks about being “financially profitable,” “providing a financial benefit to your clinic,” and a “partner program that fiscally rewards clinics.”

And so it is that in addition to preying on desperate women and taking the lives of innocent babies, Planned Parenthood drives human trafficking. That makes the $528 million the organization receives in government health services grants and reimbursements all the more outrageous. That astronomical figure is 41 percent of its revenue, according to Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report.

For all these reasons, I’m joining others in our movement in calling on Congress to start an immediate investigation into the questions raised by the troubling hidden camera video which was released yesterday. Is Planned Parenthood breaking the law? If not, are there legal loopholes that need to be closed? In any case, this is one organization that should be completely defunded. There is no reason why Planned Parenthood should be receiving taxpayer funds to enable its victimization of women and preborn children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” In this case, it is obvious we can do better for our children than killing them carefully so we may sell their parts and gain a profit.

Please help Focus on the Family help these precious young lives. I know there is a temptation to feel helpless in light of this macabre revelation… but there are things we can do. There are always things we can do when confronted by evil. Here are four:

1. Contact your lawmakers and ask them to conduct an official congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood’s selling of human organs and body parts.
Given that your tax dollars are being used to underwrite these terrible acts, you have a right to demand an inquiry. You can ask your representatives to defund Planned Parenthood. (Find your representative by inputting your zip code into the action center powered by CitizenLink, one of Focus’ public policy partners.)

2. Shine a light on what’s really happening at Planned Parenthood.
Share the video and share this blog post on social media. Don’t be afraid to speak up for life (you can read our online “Why I Am Pro-Life” series to help you get started). The sad reality is far too many people think of Planned Parenthood as a benign woman’s health clinic and are unaware it’s the nation’s largest abortion provider.

3. Help pro-life groups and causes.
You might want to volunteer at your local pregnancy resource center. You might want to help Focus give women a chance to look inside their womb – our Option Ultrasound efforts have already helped save more than 330,000 babies! And if God places a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy in your life, I hope you’ll support her emotionally and spiritually, and help meet her material needs.

4. Pray for Dr. Deborah Nucatola and others who work in the abortion industry.
No one is beyond God’s reach. We serve a God who relentlessly and lovingly pursues his lost sheep. He transforms hearts, opens blind eyes and gives life to dry bones. That’s why some of the most influential pro-life figures were once abortion supporters. As Christians, we care about Dr. Deborah Nucatola and we want her to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior. We can pray for her and reach out to her (and others like her) in love, even as we decry the evil acts they take part in.

Let me know what you think about these new revelations about Planned Parenthood. What’s the best way Christians can respond to the abortion industry? How can we best stand for life?

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I wrote a paper two years ago about U.S. tax dollars being used for abortions in the United States, and the argumentative question in the document was "Should Obamacare provide abortions free of charge or provide sliding scales?" It's never been too much of a surprise that Planned Parenthood advocates for women's health and provides abortions, but I'm intrigued in how donating organs from the terminated fetuses would "assist" the medical community. Is the idea of Planned Parenthood to sell the organs to medical companies that will then use the organs.... for what? What kind of medical purposes do these organs serve? Transplants?

My driver's license has "Organ Donor" in the laminated card-- so that if I were to die in a car crash, my organs could be used for patients who desperately needed an organ. Is that what Planned Parenthood is basically doing?

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

The cells, for one, are used in pharmaceuticals such as vaccinations. The idea of killing babies to provide protection seems completely faithless and anti-life to me!

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

Once it was 'legal' and acceptable to kill Jews in Germany, the natural progression was to harvest the valuable parts. Hair for upholstery stuffing, gold teeth, fat drippings from the crematorium to make soap etc.

Cj Atl

More than 1 year ago

Well said

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

It's a baby a human life from the moment it's conceive.

Calethia Hill

More than 1 year ago

not according to the insurance companies. And isn't it good for things to be available for those who are trying to live (even other babies) to have research available to them.......but this is just a bold face lie perpentrated by the same people who have been doing it over and over again. How many times will it take for them to lie and manipulate film for you to learn?

Sharon Guthrie

More than 1 year ago

I think Kyle Martin who is doing Revive in Indiana has the right approach. If we can all start doing what Jesus taught in Matthew 28…and follow the way Jesus taught his disciples…GO…Share Jesus with all…the poor, the captives, the blind, the oppressed and remember it is Satan…the father of lies…we are @ war with…Gods grace is for all who will accept it….We need to walk it out…excluding none with the Good News…Our God is a Big God and nothing is a surprise to Him…Not even this.

Aline Prado

More than 1 year ago

this just breaks my heart. I had no idea that people could even abort up to 3 months, MUCH LESS 6 months!!!! That is murder. Anything past the 1st four weeks seems like it would be murder too. My heart breaks for all the people that decide to abort, and the clinics that push them to it apposed to guiding them in alternative options.

Trudy Bodenbach

More than 1 year ago

There are doctors who will abort thru all nine months of pregnancy and it is perfectly legal in many states.

Calethia Hill

More than 1 year ago

Why then, did the insurance company refuse to cover my child who was born at seven and one half months but died directly afterward? you beliefs and the laws you allow contradict each other.

Charles Scheid

More than 1 year ago

OK, so what do we really learn from this? That Planned Parenthood performs some abortions? That's not exactly news. That they then use these abortions to support the medical community? That's not news either. And to be honest I was quite proud to sign my organ donor card. (I was young at the time a rode a motorcycle so I was a prime candidate.)

Here's the thing, though. Planned Parenthood prevents far more abortions than it performs. And you might not like the way it prevents them, by making birth control available,but it prevents them nonetheless. And if you get rid of Planned Parenthood then you are going to increase the number of abortions.

B Evans

More than 1 year ago

Except that may not even be true. PP is known to fudge financial records to make it seem abortions don't make up a significant portion of its sales, when they actually do. Also, for those who find abortions to be wrong, preventing abortions is meaningless if you still perform them. Also, excusing this because the body parts go to research ignores the fact that an unborn baby was deliberately killed to obtain them. That is the issue at hand, especially since the main argument of the pro-choice camp is that unborn babies are not yet human. If there are present organs to be Harvested, then the baby is human and cannot be killed.

Justin Wachin

More than 1 year ago

This doesn't surprise me. If someone has no problem murdering an unborn baby for hire I see no reason to believe they will have any morals when it comes to getting rid of the bodies. For Planned Parenthood the body part sales is just another revenue stream.

Calethia Hill

More than 1 year ago

absolutely amazing! selfish folk who only care about the unborn. To them, the unborn is like a collectable comic book......only good as long as the wrapper is on it....once the wrapper comes of, it's of no more value and noone cares about it.......JUST LIKE THE UNBORN BABY.......ONCE BORN NOT ONE OF THEM CARE ABOUT ITS SURVIVAL.

carrie_travels

More than 1 year ago

Another tip: Click on every link you see about this on major website. For example: Go to the CNN.com homepage and click on the article link "Planned Parenthood video an ugly mirror". Let's make this link as popular as possible so it stays on the homepage! Thanks!!! www.cnn.com

Stephanie Houareau

More than 1 year ago

I started a petition to Minnesota governor Dayton to start an investigation. Please sign! https://www.change.org/p/governor-mark-dayton-launch-an-investigation-on-planned-parenthood-regarding-the-harvest-and-sale-of-fetal-body-parts?recruiter=50670190&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&sharecordion_display=highlight_active_card

Dizzyphan .

More than 1 year ago

First China in the 1980's harvesting organs to sell on the black market from executed political prisoners, now this. SMH. Back then 20/20 did an exclusive undercover story about the Communist Chinese doing this. Footage of one political prison that executed 30 prisoners a month by shooting them in the back of the head then immediately loading them onto a gurney sitting right next to them and taking their livers, kidneys and even hearts. Cut to more footage of the deals going down in a New York apartment.

Cj Atl

More than 1 year ago

well said

Gwen Nelson

More than 1 year ago

It only added to my aching heart to find this story imbedded on page 8 of my local paper today. Why is this not more newsworthy? Lord, please. Heal our land. Sending a letter to my congressional leaders right now.

Amy Berti

More than 1 year ago

I'm a strong supporter of FOTF for the last 20 years. But why are we dredging up content from 15 years ago (20/20's report is from 2000)? Don't we have current evidence against Planned Parenthood that would decry practices they couldn't say is "old news" that they no longer practice?

Trudy Bodenbach

More than 1 year ago

This video is current. It was taken a year ago and just realized this week.

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

Planned Parenthood is an example of, "promising freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption." 2Pet 2:19

Omaha Guy

More than 1 year ago

It is unclear from the video which grudge I should be holding. Should I criminalize women for deciding when they want to be a mother? or should I criminalize abortion doctors for providing a liver to another suffering child? Which one is the priority here?

Nina Packard

More than 1 year ago

The baby who is ripped apart limb by limb so that their "parts" can be sold

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

It isn't an issue of holding a grudge. It is the issue of destroying an innocent life.

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

There is more to this story than what is portrayed in the video, which was edited down from 150 to 9 minutes. Christians should read the analysis of the other side to get a more informed understanding before reacting publicly, e.g., http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/07/15/3680714/planned-parenthood-controversy/ and http://www.ascb.org/newsfiles/fetaltissue.pdf. Even then, PP's actions are heartbreaking, and we must pray for those whose worldviews permit harvesting fetal organs for "tissue donations."

Ida Still

More than 1 year ago

I'm not sure why I should need to be more informed about this. I don't care the stance PP has on this video. The video speaks for itself.

Karen Ross

More than 1 year ago

Thank you the reminder that Dr. Deborah Nucatola needs prayer too. We serve an awesome God! Praise the Lord that no one is beyond His reach!

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

Gods judgments are coming because our country has turned it's back on Him. If we don't repent and turn from our evil and wicked ways we will de destroyed as a nation. We need to be in sackcloth and ashes before Him, weeping for the millions of innocent children that have been sacrificed in the name of prochoice. Where are the innocent unborn children's rights? Every life is precious to God. Shame on America.

Curtis Rose

More than 1 year ago

I wonder if it is "too late" for America to repent. How did we slip into this horrible place? Heaven help us all.

Ida Still

More than 1 year ago

Curtis Rose, we did it by turning one blind eye at a time and not speaking up with our voices when disastrous decisions were being made. We replaced the Christian walk for cushy pews and walked out of society with piety. This is our fault.

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